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Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by kazinator »

BeetleB wrote: post #193
kazinator wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time. > every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability. You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...

> You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Pointless self imposed limitations don't help.

Self-imposed limitations are absolutely key to being effective in life. You cannot go everywhere, do everything and memorize everything.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by kazinator »

sevg wrote: post #198
kazinator wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time. > every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability. You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...

A parent is sharing their joy(!) of using Anki to help their child develop curiosity, feel a sense of accomplishment, and learn about the world. And your response at someone else's joy is to swat it down and call it tedious and stupid?

> swat it down

I don't know what you're imagining by "it", but my remarks are only about memorizing all countries by border shape, not the use of spaced repetition as a whole.

That's the "it" I have swatted down.

Memorizing names of countries -> continent, I could swallow. That is useful. Or even latitude and longitude (rounded off to nearest ten degrees, say). Or some general indication: is it to the north, south; landlocked or coastal.

So if someone talks about Venezuela, the kid knows it's a coastal country in South America's north.

If you can't tell me that, what's the use of recognizing the shape of Venezuela and mapping it to a name?

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by kazinator »

commenter1234 wrote: post #207
kazinator wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these things don't require Anki. It's a tedious waste of time. > every country, recognized by unlabeled shape on the map That's a stupid thing to memorize, not to mention constantly churning due to political instability. You really need to gatekeep what you stuff into your noggin. Most educated people could recognize certain countries by shape, like Italy, Africa, USA. But every country? Come on ...

I wasn’t aware that Africa was a country, seems like I need to do some flashcard learning myself

You got my George W. Bush reference!

"Africa is a nation that suffers from terrible disease ..."

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by david_allison »

AlbertCory wrote: post #134

I actually looked into Anki recently, my idea being: instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media during downtime, why not memorize poems and great song lyrics? The issue is: I'm sick and tired of apps that want your web credentials. I want an app that doesn't share anything about me. Completely local. I have to admit, I haven't searched on Play Store for one.

AnkiDroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ichi2.anki/

Privacy Policy: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Privacy-Polic...

From the F-Droid description:

Opt-in synchronization uses the non-free AnkiWeb service by default, but this can be changed in the settings to use, for example, an instance of the unofficial Anki Sync Server).

Opt-in / off-by-default crash reporting will send data to a private / AnkiDroid open source team controlled crash reporting server if enabled. This data is only used to help fix crash bugs.

Opt-in / off-by-default analytics will send data to Google Analytics via an an open-source implementation of the analytics API if enabled. This data is only used to focus developer efforts on popular features.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by bbno4 »

peter_d_sherman wrote: post #209

Looks really cool! You know what I would like to see? First, I'd love Anki / Anki Flashcards to work as a smartphone Android app. Second, I'd love to see some way to for users to globally share their flash card decks with other users. Third, I'd love to see a site where someone could search for the decks created by other users. Forth, it should be permissible for users to charge very smallish amounts of money for the…

hi bestie...

(1) there are multiple apps on all phones (2) this is already a thing https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks (3) this is the same as (2), are you an AI? (4) it is permissible.

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by jamespwilliams »

clbrmbr wrote: post #106
kebsup wrote: post #82

(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…

I’d recommend using GPT4 to generate English sentences and then Google Translate to get the German. Harder to get example sentences for a specific German word, but may improve the quality of the German. (I had this issue when generating specialized language learning podcasts in Swedish and Polish. Lots of English-isms in GPT4’s output).

I can recommend this too, although I use DeepL instead of Google Translate, and I also use DeepL Write to identify issues in my grammar

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by jamespwilliams »

kebsup wrote: post #82

(Shameless plug at the end) During my Erasmus in Germany, I've tried almost all of the top language learning apps (Duolingo, Babel, Seedlang, Anki...) and none of them have really worked me. What I wanted was: * Learning in context --> A lot of German words do not have direct English/Czech translation, so learning the 1:1 word translation did not work well * Having audio for each card * Intensive pace --> Going throu…

It doesn’t cover all of your requirements but you might find Clozemaster interesting

Re: Anki – Powerful, intelligent flash cards

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Post by School-Cotton »

ListeningPie wrote: post #217

Anki deck is one of the first if not the first spaced repetition tool. What do they do to remain relevant after all these years, ain't broke don't fix it, or is there more?

It’s not the first; it’s basically an open-source clone of Supermemo.
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